Immunological characterization of gamma-glutamyltransferases in human serum.

abstract：:Glutathione-S-epoxide transferase has been purified from guinea pig liver in a homogeneous form having a sedimentation coefficient, s20,w of 3.8S, and a molecular weight of 46,000, and dissociable into subunits with a molecular weight of 25,000. The activities with four substrates, styrene oxide, naphthalene oxide, io...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayakawa T,Myokei Y,Yagi H,Jerina DM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gp91(phox) is a key component of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase. Mutations of its promoter found in patients with chronic granulomatous disease cause deficient binding of PU.1 and HAF-1. Because the two factors bind to the same site (Pu box) of the promoter, we attempted to clarify their relative in vivo contributions to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Islam MR,Fan C,Fujii Y,Hao LJ,Suzuki S,Kumatori A,Yang D,Rusvai E,Suzuki N,Kikuchi H,Nakamura M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By monitoring the activation of protein C and the regulation of factor Xa-catalyzed thrombin formation by the activated protein C (APC) on the surface of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), we found that functional protein C was synthesized in cultured HUVEC and expressed thereon in the presence of vitamin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanabe S,Sugo T,Matsuda M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA, which encodes a human placental fructose-6-phosphate,2-kinase/ fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase, was constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli. The expressed protein, purified to homogeneity, showed a molecular weight of 58,000 by gel electrophoresis under denaturing conditions, compared to the dedu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakakibara R,Kato M,Okamura N,Nakagawa T,Komada Y,Tominaga N,Shimojo M,Fukasawa M

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Serratia marcescens serine protease gene encoding a 1,045-amino-acid precursor protein of 112 kDa directs excretion of the mature protease of ca. 58 kDa through the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. A typical signal peptide of 27 amino acids and a large COOH-terminal domain of the precursor are both functionally...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shikata S,Shimada K,Kataoka H,Horinouchi S,Beppu T

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding properties of dynein arms to the A- and B-tubules of outer doublets of cilia from Tetrahymena pyriformis were examined, with the following results: 1. When 30s dynein purified from Tetrahymena cilia was added to doublets deficient in dynein arms, it bound to both A- and B-tubules almost equally and formed ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi M,Tonomura Y

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol-treated muscle fiber bundles were fixed at their rest length in 50 mM KC1, 2 mM MgC1(2), and 10 micron CaC1(2) at pH 7.8 and 0 degrees C in the presence of sufficient amounts of ATP, creatine kinase, and creatine phosphate. The fiber bundles were stretched linearly with time for 0.3 s at a constant amplitude,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Arata T,Mukohata Y,Tonomura Y

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Fractionation of fibroin prepared from the posterior silk glands of Bombyx mori was carried out. After carboxymethylation of the fibroin, it was fractionated by ammonium sulfate precipitation, Sephadex G-200 gel filtration and DEAE-cellulose column chromatography. 2. The fibroin was composed of at least two protein...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimura K,Kikuchi A,Ohtomo K,Katagata Y,Hyodo A

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that fatty liver was easily induced in suncus by starvation and that the plasma level of apolipoprotein B (apo B) was very low. There are three possible explanations for the low level of apo B in the animals: low synthetic rate, low secretion rate, and rapid catabolism in the circulation of apo B....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagayoshi A,Matsuki N,Saito H,Tsukamoto K,Kaneko K,Wakashima M,Kinoshita M,Yamanaka M,Teramoto T

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptolysin S (SLS) is a serum-extractable and oxygen-stable hemolysin produced by Group A Streptococcus. A SLS-deficient mutant in which transposon Tn 916 was inserted in a locus distinct from the sag gene cluster [Nizet et al. (2000) Infect. Immun. 68, 4245-4254] was obtained by filter mating of the transposon-harb...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Karaya K,Shimizu T,Taketo A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize low affinity ATP-binding sites of renal (Na+,K+) ATPase and sarcoplasmic reticulum (Ca2+)ATPase, the effects of ATP on the splitting of the K+-sensitive phosphoenzymes were compared. ATP inactivated the dephosphorylation in the case of (Na+,K+)ATPase at relatively high concentrations, while ac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukushima Y,Yamada S,Nakao M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin was isolated from leucocytes in horse arterial blood by the same procedures used for the isolation of myosin from skeletal muscle. The Ca2+-, EDTA-, and Mg2+-ATPase [EC 3.6.1.3] activities of the protein was 0.148, 0.147, and 0.001 mumoles/min/mg, respectively, in 0.5 M KCl at pH 7.0 and 25 degrees. The Ca2+-AT...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi K,Shibata N,Senda N

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete peptide map of purified recombinant human interleukin 5 (rhIL-5) was determined to verify its primary structure, glycosylation sites, and disulfide bonding structure. Each peptide fragment generated by Achromobacter protease I (API) digestion was purified and characterized by amino acid analysis and amino...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Minamitake Y,Kodama S,Katayama T,Adachi H,Tanaka S,Tsujimoto M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pull-down assay and co-immunoprecipitation of cell extracts in which the integrase or reverse transcriptase of Moloney murine leukemia virus was transiently expressed showed that both enzymes interacted with PML proteins. In infected cells, interaction between the integrase and PML was also observed. Transient express...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okino Y,Inayoshi Y,Kojima Y,Kidani S,Kaneoka H,Honkawa A,Higuchi H,Nishijima K,Miyake K,Iijima S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the molecular basis of the thermostability of a thermophilic serine protease aqualysin I from Thermus aquaticus YT-1, we introduced mutations at Pro5, Pro7, Pro240 and Pro268, which are located on the surface loops of aqualysin I, by changing these amino acid residues into those found at the correspondin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakaguchi M,Matsuzaki M,Niimiya K,Seino J,Sugahara Y,Kawakita M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies of the unfolding equilibria of two homologous proteins, bovine alpha-lactalbumin and hen lysozyme, induced by treatment with guanidine hydrochloride have been made by analysis of the peptide and the aromatic circular dichroism spectra. The effect of the specific binding of Ca2+ ion by the former pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikeguchi M,Kuwajima K,Sugai S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the preceding paper [Maita, T., Miyanishi, T., Matsuzono, K., Tanioka, Y., & Matsuda, G. (1991) J. Biochem. 110, 68-74], we reported the amino-terminal 837-residue sequence of the heavy chain of adult chicken pectoralis muscle myosin. This paper describes the carboxyl terminal 1,097-residue sequence and the linkage...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maita T,Yajima E,Nagata S,Miyanishi T,Nakayama S,Matsuda G

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four Bowman-Birk type double-headed inhibitors (B, C-II, D-II, and E-I) were isolated from soybeans. Inhibitor B was different from Bowman-Birk inhibitor only in chromatographic behavior. One mole of C-II inhibited one mole each of bovine trypsin and bovine alpha-chymotrypsin, probably at the same site, and porcine el...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Odani S,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major lipid class in the Harderian glands of the Mongolian gerbil was investigated. The IR and 1H-NMR spectra suggested that it was a wax-like compound. Fatty acids present were capric, lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, arachidic, and behenic acids in ratios of 3.0%, 16.3%, 16.5%, 29.5%, 5.1%, 16.4%, and 9.8%, re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otsuru O,Otsuka H,Kasama T,Seyama Y,Sakai T,Yohro T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 is an aerobic facultative methylotroph known to secrete pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), a cofactor of a number of bacterial dehydrogenases, into the culture medium. To elucidate the molecular mechanism of PQQ biosynthesis, we are focusing on PqqE which is believed to be the enzyme catal...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saichana N,Tanizawa K,Pechoušek J,Novák P,Yakushi T,Toyama H,Frébortová J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA for mouse prolyl endopeptidase (PEP) was cloned and its nucleotide sequence determined. The overall amino acid sequence identity between mouse and other mammalian PEPs was about 96%. A specific inhibitor of PEP, N-benzyloxycarbonyl-thioprolyl-thioprolinal- dimethylacetal (ZTTA), inhibited DNA synthesis by Swiss...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishino T,Ohtsuki S,Homma Ki,Natori S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four flavonoids (i.e., baicalein, quercetin, quercetagetin, and myricetin), known to be inhibitors of HIV-reverse transcriptase, have been shown to be more or less inhibitory to the activities of various cellular DNA and RNA polymerases. The degree of the inhibition varied depending on the combination of the flavonoid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ono K,Nakane H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the embryonic smooth muscle of chicken gizzards we found 4 high-Mr-type and 5 low-Mr-type tropomyosin isoforms in addition to alpha- and beta-isoforms reported already. The criteria by which they were identified as tropomyosin isoforms were as follows: 1) anomalous reduction of electrophoretic mobility in the prese...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hosoya M,Miyazaki J,Hirabayashi T

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequences of human histones have been investigated for studies of histone evolution. The whole histone was prepared from human spleen and was separated into 3 fractions, H4+H3+H2A, H2B, and H1, by our technique of CM-cellulose chromatography. The H2B fraction was further purified by Bio-Gel P-60 chromat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohe Y,Hayashi H,Iwai K

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Amino-4-methylphenol was converted to a brownish yellow material by the lysates of human erythrocytes or purified human hemoglobin. The reaction proceeded oxidatively, coupled with the oxidation of hemoglobin. The major component of the brownish yellow material produced by oxidative condensation of 2-amino-4-methylp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tomoda A,Arisawa M,Koshimura S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascades play essential roles in a variety of cell processes by influencing transcriptional or translational regulation. ERKs play a central role in survival and mitogenic signaling, while JNKs and p38 MAP kinases are preferentially activated by environmental stresses and are...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsukawa J,Matsuzawa A,Takeda K,Ichijo H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat gene for renin-binding protein (RnBP) was shown to be expressed in the kidney, adrenal gland, brain, lung, spleen, ovary, testis, and heart. On sodium depletion and captopril administration, the rat showed a marked increase in the adrenal RnBP mRNA level and a slight decrease in the kidney RnBP mRNA level. In two-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tada M,Takahashi S,Miyano M,Miyake Y

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new hetero-bifunctional photo crosslinking reagent, 2-(4-azidoanilyl)-4-(4-azabicyclo-[2,2, 2]hexylammonio)-6-morpholino-1,3,5-triazine chloride, was designed to detect and isolate heparin-binding protein(s) that may act as heparin-receptor(s) on the platelet surface. In a preliminary study using ethanol as a model ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suda Y,Mori K,Bird K,Marques D,Ormsby J,Tanaka S,Koshida S,Nakamura M,Kusumoto S,Sobel M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N omega-Phosphoarginine hydrolase from rat liver cytosol was purified to apparent homogeneity on SDS-PAGE, by employing column chromatographies on Sephadex G-75, DEAE-cellulose, QAE-Toyopearl, and glutathione-2-pyridyl-disulfide-Superose. One milligram protein of the final preparation released 4 mumol/min of inorganic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokoyama K,Ohmori H,Kumon A

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid compositions, constituent polypeptides and bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) contents of two kinds of Bchl-protein complexes isolated from Rhodopseudomonas palustris were examined. Spectrally dissimilar intracytoplasmic membranes obtained from cells cultured under different conditions were used as starting mat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nakano M,Morita S

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00